Arts-Based Education Research

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Arts-based Research in EducationSome BackgroundExamplesSarah Lawrence-Lightfoot The Good High SchoolHybrid FormsArt for Scholarship's SakePremisesthrough the Arts, we may deepen and have a more complex conversation or understandingthe arts can help us address qualitative nuances of situationsthe arts contribute a fresh perspective to our stock responses and understandings German philosopher Friedrich Schiller, educational philosophers such as Johann Pestalozzi, Johann Friedrich Herbart, and John Dewey, and education innovators such as Friedrich Froebel and Maria Montessori who valued the importance of experience as preliminary to knowing and understandingTypes•blend the boundaries between artistic and scientific approaches to research Tom BaroneTouching Eternity Laurel Richardson"Louisa May's Story of Her Life"Elliot Eisner:

Knowing is a multiple state of affairs; knowledge is not always reducible to languageThe artistic process offers particular ways of knowing, and the arts are a primary way of understanding experiences and phenomena in our worldThe "postmodern turn"

Elliot Eisner and graduate students at Stanford UniversityUses some of the hybridity seen above, but puts more emphasis on stand-alone artistry: poems, short stories, paintings, dance, and dramaJohnny Saldaña, Susan Finley, & Macklin Finley

"Body as fragment: Art-making, Researching, and Teaching as Boundary Shift"ExerciseIn groups of 3 or 4:a)talk about what you observe in the photographs, looking for a themeb)once the theme is decided, look for other evidence of it in the photographsc)suggest what other types of data you might need to complete your analysis(5-10 minutes)